The team behind XLM, Stellar, have announced a new partnership with the Blockchain Wallet, one that is being celebrated with a huge airdrop of free XLM tokens. The airdrop promises to donate around $ 125 million worth of XLM tokens to people who sign up to the Blockchain Wallet during this week. The bounty is set at around $ 25.00 per user, so actually, this is quite a fruitful reward.

The developers over at Stellar, the sixth biggest digital currency in the world has announced the first rungs of a second layer payments system which could potentially open the door for instantaneous off-chain settlements without fees. In a recent post on Medium, Interstellar revealed their first demo for Starlight, a Lightning Network for the Stellar Lumens digital currency.

This move puts Stellar on the same path as Litecoin and Bitcoin who have also looked into the off-chain payments as redemption for their longer block times and growing fees. In place of paying fees for several payments, users that use off chain payment rials can escrow their funds in a multi-signature wallet, allowing many transactions in several directions for only a single set of fees. Read more...

The South Korean government is expected to announce its position on initial coin offerings in November, according to a high-ranking official. The decision will follow the outcome of the survey which the country’s Financial Supervisory Service recently sent out to domestic blockchain companies.

ICO Stance Expected in November

Hong Nam-ki, Chief of the Office for Government Policy Coordination, conveyed during a parliamentary audit on Thursday that “The Korean government is likely to announce its stance on the much–disputed status of initial coin offerings [ICOs] in November,” the Investor reported. Read more...

The 0x project is a project designed to facilitate a decentralised exchange for cryptocurrencies and tokens. It’s a bold and growing project, one with a solid vision for the future. According to the 0x website:

“The 0x protocol facilitates the exchange of a growing number of Ethereum-based tokens including currencies, game items, and many more digital assets. By sharing a standard API, relayers can easily aggregate liquidity pools, creating network effects around liquidity that compound as more relayers come online.

It’s the most popular sport in the world and so it was only a matter of time before cryptocurrencies made their way into the industry. With an estimated fan base exceeding 4 billion people, soccer offers crypto a big unexplored market, and crypto startups have been quickly moving in. The latest is Italian soccer giant, Juventus, which announced today that it had partnered with blockchain-based fan engagement platform Socios.com to launch a fan token. The soccer club, which has over 300 million fans globally, intends to use the token to give its fans a voice in the running of the club.Read more...

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Yesterday, Ripple made an announcement on their official news page that points towards integration of Ripples services by three new cryptocurrency exchanges. This isn’t three new exchange listings for XRP, rather it’s a little deeper than that.

xRapid is one of the numerous Ripple technologies that help Ripple stand out as a blockchain project. As we know, xRapid is most associated with XRP, the native currency to the Ripple blockchain as it’s premise is to provide cross border payments that minimise liquidity costs, via a high speed, low fee network. Read more...

Former FC Barcelona players Carles Puyol, Iván de la Peña and Andrés Iniesta together with Kevin Mitnick, the world’s most notorious hacker, and trained neuroscientist Carlos Grenoir have announced a distributed ledger technology (DLT)/blockchain-powered social network called Olyseum to empower spor…

Fetch.AI, an AI powered, self-organising ‘smart ledger’, has announced a partnership with token information and advisory firm, TokenMarket. TokenMarket will work closely with Fetch.AI’s lead investor and strategic advisory firm, Outlier Ventures, to deliver the Fetch protocol within the blockchain ecosystem. This meets Fetch’s wider plan to ensure that its next generation artificial intelligence system is adopted into everyday society. Read more...

American multinational technology giant International Business Machines (IBM) told CoinReport in an email that in partnership with Global Citizen, a movement of engaged citizens using their voice to end extreme poverty by 2030, it has launched “Challenge Accepted: Blockchain for Good.” The challenge…

Austin-based blockchain-as-a-service company Factom is partnering with FPT Software, an IT services company stationed in Vietnam. The two enterprises will work with each other to develop a new blockchain technology platform through Factom Harmony — a system that creates audit records regarding data, decisions, activities and events. The purpose of the platform is to digitize and store files by utilizing simple APIs and Factom’s blockchain solutions, so information can become confirmable and auditable respectively.

Founded in 2014, Factom, Inc. specializes in designing and producing faster blockchain applications to handle large data for complex institutions. Among the organization’s clientele are the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Read more...

Coinsuper is building a preferred, expanding list of cryptocurrencies based on qualified, separate public chains, aimed at providing a greater choice of cryptocurrencies to investors. In linking with BitUN’s cross-chain storage network, it can now offer cryptocurrency storage services well. Coinsuper will adopt BitUN’s multi-layer technology solution for hot and cold wallet separation, ensuring investor transaction and digital asset security. Read more...

Cryptocurrency in Japan has proven to be a rather interesting topic. While the government officially legalized this form of money, the country’s exchanges are trying to introduce more regulation in their own way. A group of 16 registered companies will create a self-regulatory body to generate more trust in this industry moving forward. Read more...

FundFantasy has taken yet another step to bring fantasy trading to everyone. This unique project has partnered up with one the most popular multi-coin HD wallets in the market, Coinomi.

This partnership will allow FundFantasy to offer another avenue for potential contributors to buy, store and use their FUNDZ tokens. This partnership also puts the project in a position to learn from Coinomi team members and to contribute to the wallet’s growing list of compatible assets. This is a win-win for both and a huge advantage for the nascent fantasy trading community and users of the multi-asset wallet. Read more...

Over the years, different means of digital exchanges have been evolving. While technologies built on a centralized foundation have not been able to stand the test of time, new technologies have deduced that the best types of digital exchanges can only be built on the decentralized system. Though various digital currencies are used for online transaction, some weigh higher than others.

Just in the past few months alone, the cryptocurrency industry has been noticing a serious relationship forming between Daniel Debek, Founder of SAFEX, and Chai Shepherd one of the Co-founders of PLAAK. Read more...

“Hicky is setting the new standard for online dating by making it safer, more effective and more fun.. We’ve been testing our platform with great success and amazing feedback. Due to popular demand, we are now launching our bounty program. We are rewarding the earliest adopters by giving away free Hicky tokens (HKY) for community building efforts.” – says the Hicky team.

You can earn HKY for simple tasks such as inviting your friends to Hicky’s Telegram channel or retweeting tweets.

On February 3, 2018, ShineChain and Weiyunbaobei Network Technology Co., Ltd. reached a strategic partnership at the headquarters of Weiyunbaobei in Beijing, China.

This partnership can lead Weiyunbaobei’s existing platform of over 200,000 drivers and leading insurance providers to enhance the utility of ShineChain Token (SHE). Participants in this network will be given SHE tokens when they use the Weiyunbaobei’s Gas App, Baobei Gas to purchase discounted gasoline, repair services, roadside assistance or any other vehicle services within the network. All tokens can be used for buying some cost-effective insurance coverages later. Read more...

Blockchain-driven social platform Matchpool and QTUM have teamed up to announce The QTUM Dev Challenge. The challenge is aimed at building a QTUM-based application for the platform and expanding Matchpool’s presence in Asian regions.

The QTUM Dev Challenge is looking for enthusiastic blockchain developers who are up to the challenge of building and submitting an MVP of the Matchpool social app for Asian community based on QTUM platform and using $ QGUP token as its currency. The contest will begin on January 8, 2018, and last until February 15, 2018.